Spring Haiku: We Have a Winner!

[4]OK, it's taken a bit longer than expected -- sorry to keep you hanging -- but we finally have a winner in our vaunted Spring Haiku Contest[5]. Some 148 of you budding poets participated, and the entries ranged from funny to poignant to... well... interesting.(Some of the entries didn't technically qualify, as they weren't technically haikus[6]. What are you gonna do.)In the end, our highly scientific judging process[7] yielded one winner. That winner is Emily Edwards and as promised she will receive an official Runner's World t-shirt for her efforts.Emily's winning entry:

Fairweather runners
Emerge like they own the place.
I ran all winter.

It was a tough call. Three others merit special mention, as runners-up: